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Ireland's Lions Watch report card: 13 in waiting
Fresh in the afterglow of Ciarán Frawley’s Kings Park drop goal heroics, I boldly stated that Ireland could end up with 20 sele…
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Argentina’s Dubai Sevens ratings: ‘Human cannonball’ among standouts
With much of Los Pumas 7s game plan based on asphyxiating the opposition with their relentless defence, the Flying Fijians got the…
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Australia’s Dubai Sevens ratings: Maddison Levi’s near-perfect weekend
Defending SVNS Series champions Australia are off to an idyllic start in 2024/25 after taking out their fifth Dubai Sevens title i…
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Owen Farrell en tournée avec les Lions : les chances se réduisent
Les espoirs d'Owen Farrell de participer à une quatrième tournée des Lions britanniques et irlandais semblent compromis par les…
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Owen Farrell's Lions chances have nose-dived
Owen Farrell’s aspirations of making a fourth British & Irish Lions tour appear to be on shaky ground as injuries and his new cl…
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Ireland player ratings | 2024 Autumn Nations Series
What was particularly evident in selection was the reliance on a core of forwards – of the seven players that started all four m…
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Ireland player ratings vs Australia | 2024 Autumn Nations Series
Andy Farrell came into this expecting his Irish side to produce their best performance of this Autumn Nations Series but they fail…
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Australia player ratings vs Ireland | 2024 Autumn Nations Series
Australia player ratings:The 22-19 scoreline will be a particular bitter pill for Joe Schmidt and this Wallabies' team, w…
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Jake White: Be warned All Blacks, you risk setting a dangerous precedent
Look away now if you’re squeamish, but I’d like to remind you about what sacrifices have been made in order to the wear the Al…
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Rosie Galligan’s assessment of the PWR season so far
Can you believe we are already into round eight of the PWR? There has been some spectacular rugby played with unpredictable result…
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Scotland player ratings | Autumn Nations Series 2024
Going into the four-match Autumn Nations Series the general consensus was that Scotland needed to beat Fiji and Portugal convincin…
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Perhaps NZR did not learn from Folau after allowing the Haka hijack
Well, offence is a two-way street and it’s dangerous for sporting bodies to pick and choose which parts of the public they’re …